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Show MANY MINERS WORKING FOR GOLDFIELD CON. Although little ore Is being extracted, oxcopt In the .Combination, and that merely sufficient to keep the mill In operation, development work on Consolidated Con-solidated properties Is progressing expeditiously ex-peditiously and with a large force of men. The payroll shows 130 names, practically the men that can be advantageously advan-tageously employed at tle present time. Development work Is going ahead on the 311 and other levels of thf; Combination, Combina-tion, as well as In the slopes and the ore 1 5 being blocked out much more rapidly than It is being broken. One or two lenses of high-grade shipping ore have been blocked, but only tho milling grade Is being extracted. Dally the Combination Combina-tion Is proving Its greatness and permanency. perma-nency. Work is progressing on several levola of the Mohawk, the giant of Goldfleld's mines. Splendid results are being obtained ob-tained In the winzo that Is being lowered from the 450 floorv The working Is In high-grade ore on the four Rides and bottom, bot-tom, and conclusively proves the permanence perma-nence of high values In tho property. A considerable force of men are grading for the company's railroad, which will be about three mile In length, and connect con-nect all the producing proportles of the Consolidated with the now mill. The ties and rails have been received and the rolling stock Is cxpocted shortly. Probably the miners employed at the Goldfield Consolidated Mines company oro the best provided for of any in the West. Three boarding houses aro conducted con-ducted by tho company, ono at Mllltown and two, the Jumbo and Red Top, at Jumbolown. Here the food provided Is the best and the dining rooms are attractively at-tractively arranged. The rates charged by the company are Jess than that paid for accommodations down town. It Is not obligatory upon the men to patronize patron-ize tho company boarding houses, but a majority do so by choice. Material will soon begin arriving for the big mill and by that time the company com-pany rnllroad will be completed and bo able to haul the material from the depot. de-pot. 11 burning engines will be used. Rapid progress Is being made in the installation or the central compressox plant and the big steam power hoist ot the Mohawk, as well ns the myriad of minor Innovations that have been adopted under the regime of the new general manager, Mr. Mackenzie. Gold Held News. v |